# Aliases permanently to specified indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630 "2019-07-03T07:17:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Gidi\_Kalef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gidi_kalef/32/43651_2.png) [@Gidi\_Kalef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gidi_Kalef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/1 "2019-07-03T07:17:27Z")

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HI Guys ,

I have few indexes patterns that i want to create alias for "wakeupsms" by default.  
i already did POST \_aliases and it work but didn't effect for new indices .  
i tried to put template by the following command but i think i miss something because nothing happend:

PUT \_template/wakeupsms  
{

```
"order" : 0,
"index_patterns" : [
  "prod-env-jobs-*",
  "pre_prod-xxx-listener-*"
],
"settings" : {
  "index" : {
    "lifecycle" : {
      "name" : "index-policy"
    },
    "number_of_shards" : "5",
    "number_of_replicas" : "0"
  }
},
"mappings" : { },
"aliases" : {
    "alias1" : {},
  
    "{index}-prod-wakeupsms" : {} 
}

```

}

what is the solution?  
Thanks,

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/2 "2019-07-03T08:27:06Z")

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Hey,

take this example. The first part of the alias is actually the alias name, so no need to specify `{index}` in there

```auto
PUT _template/foo-template
{
    "index_patterns" : ["foo-*"],
    "aliases" : {
        "my-alias" : {} 
    }
}

PUT foo-1/_doc/1
{
  "key" : "1"
}

PUT foo-2/_doc/2
{
  "key" : "2"
}

PUT foo-3/_doc/3
{
  "key" : "3"
}

GET my-alias/_search

```

Hope I understood your request correctly.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![Gidi\_Kalef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gidi_kalef/32/43651_2.png) [@Gidi\_Kalef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gidi_Kalef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/3 "2019-07-03T09:09:04Z")

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Hi i understood , thanks alot!!!!

PUT \_template/wakeupsms  
{

```auto
"order" : 0,
"index_patterns" : [
  "prod-env-jobs-*",
  "pre_prod-xxx-listener-*"
],
"settings" : {
  "index" : {
    "lifecycle" : {
      "name" : "index-policy"
    },
    "number_of_shards" : "5",
    "number_of_replicas" : "0"
  }
},
"mappings" : { },
"aliases" : {
    "wakeupsms" : {},
  

}

```

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**Author:** ![Gidi\_Kalef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gidi_kalef/32/43651_2.png) [@Gidi\_Kalef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gidi_Kalef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/4 "2019-07-03T09:24:46Z")

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Hey! thanks for quick respond  
should I rebuild index after put the changes?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/5 "2019-07-03T13:02:44Z")

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this is only about creating the index template that only applies on new index creation.

What makes you think you need to rebuild? The short answer is 'no' but I am curious about the reasoning here.

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**Author:** ![Gidi\_Kalef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gidi_kalef/32/43651_2.png) [@Gidi\_Kalef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gidi_Kalef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/6 "2019-07-03T14:13:22Z")

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because the template is for specified indexes that already in the system and new indexes that will be create everyday

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/7 "2019-07-03T14:37:31Z")

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the template is only applied when a new index is created, never on existing indices.

See the note right at the top at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.2/indices-templates.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.2/indices-templates.html)

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**Author:** ![Gidi\_Kalef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gidi_kalef/32/43651_2.png) [@Gidi\_Kalef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gidi_Kalef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/8 "2019-07-03T15:24:00Z")

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Great! I knew it just wanted to double check in case of aliases as well  
thanks alot

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aliases-permanently-to-specified-indexes/188630/9 "2019-07-31T15:24:13Z")

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